Penang

While I was looking out from the window in the plane back to KL last Tuesday, I suddenly thought of going to Penang. Haha I told my friend, Wen How who is staying in Penang about it. I finally bought a bus ticket to Penang after we confirmed about the plans. I asked Sze Ying to come along with me. We both reached Penang on a late Friday night. Wen How brought us back to his apartment and we stayed in his room for 2 nights.

The next morning, he gave us his car and GPS to go out because he had to work and he could not bring us out. We drove the car WITHOUT any LICENSE. Sze Ying and I started our day off with dim sum at Tian Tian Lai for breakfast.


It was a nice breakfast.

After the breakfast, we went to the Toy Museum in Tanjung Bungah.


I drove past USM and I was wondering whether Crystal was there.


I doubt Crystal plays football.


We depended on the GPS throughout the whole journey.


We finally reached Toy Museum.


Look alike 1


Look alike 2

We wanted to go to P Ramlee's house after that but our GPS ran out of battery. That was when the REAL adventure began for the both of us. Two lost Kuching drivers in Penang. We decided to go to Gurney Plaza instead to find a handphone shop to charge the GPS. It took us an hour to find the directions to Gurney Plaza. We asked so many people, from going into a church to going into a hospital to ask for directions. We drove along Jalan Pangkor for more than 5 times. When we finally reached Gurney Plaza, we were so relieved. The shop charged us rm10 to charge our GPS there. We went shopping while waiting for it to be fully charged.


Actually, we planned to eat Penang Char Kueh Tiaw for lunch after going to P Ramlee's house but we had to give up that lunch for a sad lunch at A&W in Gurney Plaza instead.

When the GPS came back to live, we went to P Ramlee's house.


P Ramlee's house

For God sake, I didn't know P Ramlee is no longer alive anymore till Sze Ying told me about it and said I was so dumb. We went back to Wen How's apartment after that. It took us so long to reach home just because we missed a turning. So near, yet so far. We didn't have time to shower when we reached home because Wen How said the place for dinner was pretty far and we had to go earlier. We went to Bukit Genting for Thai Food with his other 3 greenian friends.


Sunset in Bukit Genting


A nice place to have dinner


We ate durians first.


Cangkuk manis


Fish


Tom Yam soup


Spicy fish


Squids


Time to pay bill

After dinner, we went to Batu Ferringhi.


We walked along the streets there.

There were so many tourists as well. Despite the fact that I was so exhausted, I managed to survive till after midnight.


Wen How brought us to eat Fried Bee Hoon with fried fish at Jalan Macalaister for breakfast before leaving for KL.


It was a nice breakfast as well.


I had a great time in Penang and I want to go there again next time. Thanks to the great host!

The only drawback about Penang is, most of the Penang drivers are very rude. Not only that, the bus environment was bad.


People putting legs up.

People in front pushing their chairs way back till we had no space in the bus.

Children behind me who kept kicking my chair and touching my hair till I could not stand it anymore and scolded them. Guess what did the big brother tell the small sister? "Jangan kacau. Nanti AUNTY marah lagi". I actually looked so old to them.